Maude Cushing Storick

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Charge:	First Degree Murder
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment
Years Imprisoned:	26
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Year Convicted:	1923
Year Cleared:	1949
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Michigan
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Result:	Pardoned
Summary of Case:	Maude Cushing Storick was wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment for allegedly causing the death of her husband by poisoning. Pardoned by Michigan Governor Mennen Williams in Oct 1949 after credible evidence was presented that her husband died from natural causes and no crime had been committed. Received no compensation for 26 years of imprisonment.
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Innocence Proved By:	Pardoned by Michigan Governor Mennen Williams in Oct 1949 after credible evidence was presented that no crime had been committed.
Defendant Aided By:	Detroit attorney Mrs. Alean B. Clutts
Compensation Awarded:	No
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Sex:	Female
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"“Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases,” Hugo Adam Bedau & Michael L. Radelet, Stanford Law Review, November, 1987, Vol. 40, p. 162."
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Information Source 2:	"The Innocents, Edward Radin,William Morrow & Co., 1964, po, 70-5 and 244"
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Maude Cushing Storick

Charge:

First Degree Murder

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

26

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1923

Year Cleared:

1949

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Michigan

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Result:

Pardoned

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

Pardoned by Michigan Governor Mennen Williams in Oct 1949 after credible evidence was presented that no crime had been committed.

Defendant Aided By:

Detroit attorney Mrs. Alean B. Clutts

Compensation Awarded:

No

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Female

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

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"“Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases,” Hugo Adam Bedau & Michael L. Radelet, Stanford Law Review, November, 1987, Vol. 40, p. 162."

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"The Innocents, Edward Radin,William Morrow & Co., 1964, po, 70-5 and 244"

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